- GANELIN TRIO PRIORITY
- PETRAS VYSNIAUSKAS QUARTET
- DIKEMAN - KUGEL - VAN DER WEIDE
- MOONDOC/CAMPBELL/GREENE/KUGEL
- DICK/ELLIS/KUGEL
- GLOD/RAMOND/KUGEL & ROBERTSON
- ULTRAMARINE
- SWITCHBACK
- STEFAN HEIDTMANN PROJECT
- KAN
- SABIR MATEEN & DELL/RAMOND/KUGEL
- POSTAREMCZAK-WOJCINSKI-KUGEL
- UNDIVIDED
- ROBY GLOD / ROBERTA PIKET - QUARTET
- CHARLES GAYLE TRIO
Projects
GANELIN TRIO PRIORITY
trio photos by Matthias Creutziger
Vyacheslav Ganelin - piano, synthesizer, percussion
Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone
Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion
" ... and they’re still playing highly interactive, tensile music."
- The New York Times, 2007
"The new Ganelin Trio is without comparison in European music."
- from the DVD linernotes by Wolf Kampmann, Berlin, 2006
Project website: www.ganelintrio.com
UNDIVIDED
Waclaw Zimpel - bass & alto clarinet, b-clarinet, tarogato, composition
Perry Robinson - clarinet | Bobby Few - piano
Mark Tokar - double bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
CDs: "THE PASSION" & "MOVES BETWEEN CLOUDS", [MultiKulti Project]
"Wonderful creative music! Very deep! Great work!" - Larry Blood, 2010, USA
"A band with a great musical vision, and pitch perfect delivery. Again a great achievement. - Stef Gijssels, freejazz-stef.blogspot, 2010, Belgium
Project website: www.undivided.pl
PETRAS VYSNIAUSKAS QUARTET
Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone
NN - piano, NN - bass, Klaus Kugel - drums
"Soprano saxophonist Petras Vysniauskas, a Lithuanian, is I believe one of the most profoundly original musicians concentrating on that instrument -- his jagged phrases expanded on determinedly original intervals and his sound is powerful -- stronger and more pointed than Sam River’s has become, for instance, more densely concentrated than the late Steve Lacy’s, if not polyphonic in the manner of Evan Parker." - Howard Mandel, 2007, USA
Project website: www.petrasvysniauskas.com
SWITCHBACK
Mars Williams - tenor, alto, soprano, sopranino -saxophones
Waclaw Zimpel - bass, alto, b -clarinets, tarogato
Hilliard Greene - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
SWITCHBACK is a new high octane quartet from Chicago, Warsaw, NYC and Cologne. First tour was March 2013 - first CD soon!! NEXT TOUR MAY 2014
Project website: www.switchback.inemu.com
POSTAREMCZAK-WOJCINSKI-KUGEL
Pawel Postaremczak - tenor and soprano saxophone
Ksawery Wojcinski - double bass | Klaus Kugel- drums
CD on Multikulti Project: "Affinity"
●●●● also available as a quartet with Roy Campbell (trumpet, fluegelhorn, flute) : POSTAREMCZAK/WOJCINSKI/KUGEL & ROY CAMPBELL
Project website: www.postaremczak.wojcinski.kugel-trio.com
ROBY GLOD / ROBERTA PIKET - QUARTET
photos © Kostyantyn Smolyaninov
Roby Glod - alto & soprano saxophones | Roberta Piket - piano
Mark Tokar - double bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
●●●● new CD on Nemu Records: "OP DER SCHMELZ LIVE" ●●●●
Project website: www.quartet.robyglod.com
CHARLES GAYLE TRIO
photo © Jan Bebel
Charles Gayle - tenor saxophone, piano
Hilliard Greene - double bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
www.gayle.greene.kugel-trio.com
October/November 2013
Charles Gayle - tenor saxophone, piano
Ksawery Wójciński - double bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
www.gayle.wojcinski.kugel-trio.com
DIKEMAN - KUGEL - VAN DER WEIDE
John Dikeman - tenor & baritone saxophone
Raoul van der Weide - contrabass, crackle box
Klaus Kugel - drums [& special guest: Andy Moor - guitar (The Ex)]
Shades of Albert Ayler fragmented and fermented in a universe converging in refractory impro areas, temperaments and sounds.
●●●● new CD on NotTwo Records: "across the sky" ●●●●
Project website: www.dikeman-kugel-vanderweide.inemu.com
STEFAN HEIDTMANN PROJECT
photos © Cees Van De Ven
Stefan Heidtmann - piano, composition
Reiner Winterschladen - trumpet | Gerd Dudek - tenor saxophone
Dieter Manderscheid - double bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
"The Desire for Sound - (...), that´s an illustrious group. And it would not be remotely exaggerated to claim that there isn´t much better in German jazz. Or in Europe." (Frankfurter Rundschau, 2001)
The Stefan Heidtmann Project played 2002 at the Euro Jazz Festival Mexico City & and toured in Mexico.
The cd "blue sand and green sky" (shaa-music) was awarded 5 stars in the German magazine FONOFORUM.
Project website: www.reviews.heidtmann.info
DICK/ELLIS/KUGEL
Robert Dick - flutes | Lisle Ellis - bass & circuitry | Klaus Kugel - drums
mp3 clip
Robert Dick, Lisle Ellis and Klaus Kugel are three singular creators whose collective effort has resulted in a remarkable trio. In even as varied an epoch as our current one, where creative musicians now regularly and easily traverse seemingly disparate styles, there are few ensembles that impress as convincingly in their ability to bridge idioms, blend the sonic textures and timbres of the ancient with present sensibilities of technology, and fire a listener’s imagination with possibilities of future music. The international complexion of the trio - American, Canadian, and German - and their broad array of musical experience as composers, interpreters, leaders, and instrumental as well as technological innovators results in collective creations that are kaleidoscopic in nature.
SABIR MATEEN & DELL/RAMOND/KUGEL
Sabir Mateen - alto & tenor sax, flutes, alto & b-clarinet, poetry
Christopher Dell - vibes | Christian Ramond - bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
Sabir Mateen’s enduring presence which no-one can ignore within the scene of improvisational music has made him protagonist of one chapter in Phil Freeman’s book "New York Is Now! The New Wave of Free Jazz".
" ... Dell, Ramond and Kugel ... is an excellent rhythm section, that quietly turns in an exhilarating performance. Everything is terrifically balanced, from the song structures to the interaction. Collective motion is electric: a charging, spasmodic swing rises up from all sides. They are, simply, an irresistible rhythm trio, by turns direct, elusive, and awash in color." - Greg Buium, CODA MAGAZINE, Canada, 2003
[the first concert of this new project took place at the Jazz Festival Prague 2011]
Project website: www.sabir-mateen.and.dell.ramond.kugel-trio.com
ULTRAMARINE
Uliana Horbachevska - voice | Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone
Mark Tokar - double bass, voice | Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion
"The groups sound … runs the gamut of human expression, traversing a landscape of peaks and valleys. Using Ukrainian folklore and free-form improv, the quartet stirs up infectious enthusiasm … maintain a cohesive warmth, with an almost invisible seam connecting each section ... the music reaches an ecstatic climax ... " - John Barron, theJazzWord, USA, 2012
Watch ULTRAMARINE on youtu.be
Project website: www.ultramarine.inemu.com
GLOD/RAMOND/KUGEL & ROBERTSON
Roby Glod - alto & soprano saxophones
Christian Ramond - double bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
& Herb Robertson - trumpets
"Glod’s alto and soprano are a drizzle of crystalline notes, bunched with massive and coloured cadences and dissonant floods, making his sound « mineral» with a majestic hallmark." - JazzReview.com
“Herb Robertson has a voracious appetite for the jazz past, with an eye toward the future” - The New York Times
Project website: www.glod.ramond.kugel-trio.com
MOONDOC/CAMPBELL/GREENE/KUGEL
photo © Nick Ruechel
Jemeel Moondoc - alto saxophone | Roy Campbell - trumpet, fluegelhorn, flute
Hilliard Greene - double bass | Klaus Kugel - drums
Last Europe Tour was April 2008. Watch the quartet on youtu.be
KAN
photo M. Tominga & K. Kugel by Ute H. Kaiser
Makiko Tominaga - butoh dance | Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone
Klaus Kugel - percussions, sound objects ... (Japan, Lithuania, Germany)
Last performances: SilentArt festival Bochum 2007, Germany & Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst / Lange Nacht der Koelner Museen 2008, Germany